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Top Stories Poke Raises $10M Extension for Text-Based AI Agents at $300M Valuation Poke, the consumer AI startup, has raised an additional $10 million on top of its $15 million seed round, bringing its valuation to $300 million post-money. The Palo Alto company offers an AI agent accessible via iMessage,
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Top Stories Tether Launches QVAC SDK for Decentralized AI Infrastructure Tether's QVAC team announced the launch of QVAC SDK, a fully open-source cross-platform Software Development Kit designed to become a universal Artificial Intelligence building block. The company sees AI as "a new element of the periodic table
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Top Stories NVIDIA Vera Rubin Launches with Major Cloud Partners Among the first cloud providers to deploy Vera Rubin-based instances in 2026 will be AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and OCI, as well as NVIDIA Cloud Partners CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius and Nscale. Microsoft will deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems
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Top Stories Shopify Launches AI Toolkit for Direct Agent Control Shopify launched an official AI Toolkit supporting Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code, enabling agents to build apps and manage stores via Shopify's API and CLI. Whatever AI coding agent you already use, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini
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Top Stories Meta Debuts Muse Spark AI Model in Strategic Shift Meta launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who joined nine months ago and leads Meta Superintelligence Labs. The company said improved AI training techniques along with rebuilt technology infrastructure has enabled
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Top Stories OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show TBPN Amid Narrative Control Concerns OpenAI purchased the Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN), a Silicon Valley streaming talk show, with executive Fidji Simo stating the company wants to foster a "constructive conversation" about AI while describing the purchase as part of
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Top Stories Claude Suffers Second Major Outage in Two Days Anthropic's Claude AI experienced another significant outage on April 7, marking the second major disruption in consecutive days after more than 8,000 user reports flooded Downdetector. The Monday outage lasted roughly two hours before being resolved, but
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Top Stories ServiceNow's AI Revolution Signals "SaaSpocalypse" End ServiceNow's Now Assist platform reached a confirmed $1 billion run rate trajectory by early April 2026, marking the fastest-growing product launch in company history. The company's shares jumped 5.5% on April 1, ending
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Top Stories NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Gains 17 Enterprise Partners Including Adobe, Salesforce, and SAP NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Agent Toolkit, an open-source platform for building autonomous AI agents, with adoption from Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, Cadence, Synopsys, IQVIA, Palantir, Box, Cohesity, Dassault Systèmes, Red Hat,
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Top Stories Anthropic Claude Mythos Confirmed in Limited Testing Anthropic confirmed the existence of Claude Mythos after a March 26 data leak revealed internal documents describing "by far the most powerful AI model we've ever developed." The company acknowledged developing "a general purpose model with
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Top Stories Google Unveils TurboQuant Algorithm for Radical AI Memory Efficiency Google Research released TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces AI memory usage by 6x and delivers 8x performance improvements in attention computation. The algorithm quantizes the key-value cache to just 3 bits without requiring training or fine-tuning while maintaining
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Top Stories OpenAI Revenue Soars to $25B as IPO Speculation Intensifies OpenAI has surpassed $25 billion in annualized revenue and is reportedly taking early steps toward a public listing, potentially as soon as late 2026. Rival Anthropic is approaching $19 billion in annualized revenue. The figures signal that the market